Voice is both a set of sonic, material, and literary practices shaped by culturally and
historically specific moments and a category invoked in discourse about personal agency …

In The Race of Sound Nina Sun Eidsheim traces the ways in which sonic attributes that
might seem natural, such as the voice and its qualities, are socially produced. Eidsheim …

In twenty essays on subjects such as noise, acoustics, music, and silence, Keywords in
Sound presents a definitive resource for sound studies, and a compelling argument for why …

Marian Anderson's 1955 Metropolitan Opera debut promised to be a pivotal moment that
would create a level playing field for African American singers in US opera. But an …

The human singing voice holds immense power-to convey mood, emotion, and identity in
songs, provide music's undeniable" wow" moments, and communicate a pop song's …

More than 200 years after the first speaking machine, we are accustomed to voices that
speak from any-and everywhere. We interact daily with voices that emit from house alarm …

In Pop Masculinities, author Kai Arne Hansen investigates the performance and policing of
masculinity in pop music as a starting point for grasping the broad complexity of gender and …

Throughout Brazil, Afro-Brazilians face widespread racial prejudice. Many turn to religion,
with Afro-Brazilians disproportionately represented among Protestants, the fastest-growing …

Two distinct approaches to timbre analysis exist, each with complementary strengths and
limitations. First, music theorists from the 1980s adopt a positivist mindset and look for ways …

Timbre is crucial to the generation of musical affect and meaning. But despite its well-
acknowledged importance, musicology remains largely" tone deaf"—timbre is in the peculiar …